February 2010
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Adaptive Traffic Controls
Cities need to increase the use of adaptive traffic controls.
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NetRouter: Route Optimization for Fuel... →
NetRouter is a web-based solution for creating optimal routes for truck fleets and field service call vehicles. NetRouter is the recipient of the 2010 IBM Lotus Energy and Environment “Green” Award. For more information, visit www.netrouter.com.
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IBM’s Global Delivery organization includes more than 50,000 IBMers in centers around the world, from Argentina to Vietnam. We’ve challenged these global professionals to share their ideas and stories on the smarter cities they want to live and work in. And global citizens around the world are invited join in as well.
What does your city need to become smarter? What kind of...
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IBM is creating a smarter way to search through...
Kamal Salem - GDC Egypt - Cairo, Egypt:
7000 years of civilization, just think of the amount of data this country has generated over the ages. On the shores of one of the longest rivers in the world, the river Nile, lies a small building. From the outside it seems insignificant compared to the towering banks and hotels in adjacent spaces along the east bank of the Nile, however, inside this...
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Efficient Traffic Management and Public Transport...
Kochi, a city that is fighting for its place to gain the reputation of being smart. A proposed IT township project that carries the “Smart” prefix to it is still to become a reality. It’s true that lack of political will and lack of vision will continue to bog the city down from spreading its wings and flying higher, but in spite of all odds Kochi will definitely grow bigger. But...
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starlab:
The Social Transit Research Lab (StarLab) is an open source project of The Department of Public Work. StarLab is currently developing transit simulation software to measure the relative efficiencies of new transit practices like car and taxi sharing.
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Denver international airport's solar energy...
Obviously fossil fuels have hit their peak and it’s time to invest in alternative energy, one that is renewable and has no pollution. Denver has always been on the forefront for green technology with their green data centers to their greenhouse gas reduction strategy. Truthfully it makes me proud to live in a city that is concerned about climate change and sustainability. Denver has also had its...
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Tapwater Jackson Living Small: How Slums Can Save... →
Stewart Brand in Prospect via 3 Quarks Daily
The reversal of opinion about fast-growing cities, previously considered bad news, began with The Challenge of Slums, a 2003 UN-Habitat report. The book’s optimism derived from its groundbreaking fieldwork: 37 case studies in slums worldwide….
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Smarter Transportation Forum in DC
ajmacisaac:
In 2010, there are 476 urban areas with at least 1 million people worldwide. That’s an increase of 573% from 1950 when there were 83. Over half the world’s population now lives in urban areas. Transportation congestion continues to grow, wasting time and money while creating more pollution. Most of the developed world’s transportation infrastructures were designed decades ago and...
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Solving the Parking Problem - Starting in Hoboken →
twigl:
If you’ve ever tried parking in Hoboken, you’ll know that this is a welcome message from their head of parking and transportation. Read on at GOOD.
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Better Traffic Control in Ruby Golpark More,...
Traffic in Ruby More (see crossing in Wikimapia) is always chaotic esp as the Unionised vehicle drivers (Auto Wallah etc.) do not follow signals. Given the political realities need to find a solution that will enable Auto to by-pass the More, drop passengers and return back.
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Moscow, Russia
Moscow is a city that has been host to 80% of the regional economy for a country that is the largest by land mass. Regional industry is built on resource consumption & redistribution, while apartments in the center of the city are centrally heated, with no choice of turning them down.
The corner of Kutuzovsky Prospekt & the ‘3rd Transportation Ring’ a a glimpse into the...
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Minimizing Traffic caused by CARS in Metros...
Now a days most people will uses car to go to office but if we observed for only one person they will use whole car.If we made rule that at least there should be 3 or 4 members then only than can use that car otherwise they have to pay some fine. The result will be people will search friends to share car. In this way we can minimize number of cars and traffic in city by 1/4 to 1/2.
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SeeClickFix Challenge ...NEW HAVEN CT
A 24/7 digital block watch with apps and much more under development…..how much does that cost? wow I thought to myself, this has huge potential. I was right! ( BTW…it’s free!!!!)
See Click Fix has connected active residents with my local government. This “connection” is real time and 24/7 & 365….this site is never closed. Beyond the “always...
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Yale bus speeding on Bishop Street
My clickfix story is about a post I almost reluctantly made because I was afraid I would be tagged a nerd or geek or something. But it was about the Yale University shuttle buses, which are often regular size school buses, though they run on biodiesel, and how they would speed up my street, which has a 25 m.p.h. posted speed limit. On several occasions since moving to Bishop in 2008, I...
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Residents, Civic Groups use New Technology to Take...
Imagine a world in which all citizens felt they were engaged in a dialogue with local governments, as well as with one another individually, in ways that were highly efficient and accountable to public concerns.
These are the principles driving SeeClickFix.com, a “Governance 2.0” tool that allows citizens and organizations to identify and resolve non-emergency issues – no matter where in the...
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It's all so easy with SeeClickFix
This is a photo of a flat tire. You can’t see it but the back tire on that side is flat, too. This car sat right around the corner from me gathering leaves and litter for over a month before I got sick of looking at it and put it on SeeClickFix. After about a week the police had it towed away. Done. Easy.
Now I could have called the police directly and probably gotten the same result, but one of...
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SeeClickFix “Snow Helpers” Mobilize to Clear...
At the end of the day on Friday, I created “Snow Helper” Watch Areas on SeeClickFix, with the advice of SCF Co-Founder Ben Berkowitz, in an attempt to keep track of all the snow-related issues reported in the District. Even though the Mayor says our streets are “90 percent” cleared, there are still piles of ice and slush blocking crosswalks, bus stops and Metro stations, making our city...
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The City in Mind
bookpile:
The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition by James Kunstler is a really terrific book, I highly recommend it. I learned a lot and have a new perspective on a few things because of it. Parts of it are extremely depressing; I’m not sure I have much hope for the future of American cities. Perhaps if enough people read this book, the trend towards city disasters in this country can be...
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The City that Built Itself →
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A look at the transformation of Caracas’s utopian superblock of the 1950s to its current slums. Although not quite the city imagined by Pérez Jiménez, the mass of ranchos that now flood the area is still reminiscent of the envisioned “organic community.”
Submitted by Hanaa R. (hanaa@princeton.edu):
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See. Click. Fix. A Smarter way to improve your... →
secondaryartifacts:
How to Participate & Post - SeeClickFix allows anyone to:
See - spot a non-emergency issue in your neighborhood
Click - open a ticket describing the issue and what can be done to resolve it
Fix - publicly report the issue to everyone for resolution
Got a question for the SCF Team? Use Tumblr’s great new Ask feature.
Got a Tumblr Site?
Feed the SeeClickFix Challenge...
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Using SeeClickFix to Uncover Potholes
Spot.Us is a nonprofit organization that fundraises for independent journalists. When we approached the Oakland Tribune to see what project they might be interested in funding the Editor in Chief Martin Reynolds knew exactly what topic they wanted to cover: Potholes. Oakland has a problem with potholes and rubbled streets. The Oakland Tribune already had contracted with a freelance reporter...
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The Power of One
When people ask me what SeeClickFix is, or what it does, I avoid the tech speak and instead try to get to the heart of what it has meant to my community - “SeeClickFix is an online tool that turns one citizen’s concern into a neighborhood invested in a positive action”
On our quiet, residential street, one neighbor saw a very suspicious car continually parked in front of a...
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SeeClickFix can help revitalize struggling local...
There is no such thing as a “smarter” city without several healthy, enterprising news organizations competing and playing their watchdog roles. At the moment, traditional news organizations all over the nation are seeing the collapse of their business models as advertisers spread their dollars over a wider range of options. These companies are crucial employers that cover a wide...
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SeeClickFix has provided invaluable assistance to readers of the New Haven Register in Connecticut. Connecting the application to the newspaper site gives readers immediate and easy access to post real quality-of-life concerns in a place where the concerns should draw attention very quickly. The SeeClickFix connection also gives folks a chance to vent about issues and get a look at what is...
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See Click Fix Helps New Yorkers Stay Warm in...
Last October Ben Berkowitz and See Click Fix made it possible for us to launch Heatwatchnyc.org - a website dedicated to help New York tenants put pressure on their often negligent landlords to provide adequate heat and hot water. Heatwatchnyc encourages tenants to first report heat and hot water violations to the city housing authority.
Over the last few months, dozens of people have used...
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Watchseeclickfix:
How could SeeClickFix alert any Government in the world so easily when you report an issue?
Watch the video made our buddy Ted Mann at Gannett.
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The Power of SCF
I’ve been a fan and user of SeeClickFix since it’s very early stages. I’ve been able to get street lights fixed, potholes filled, sidewalks cleaned up, in-road pedestrian signs posted, and snow removed from slippery sidewalks all by posting to SCF. It has dramatically improved my attitude about New Haven and made me a very happy resident, now that I have the power to communicate...
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See Click Fix and Tucson
I’m very proud of the partnership Tucson has forged with SeeClickFix. The development of the SeeClickFix Plus application channel for Tucson, available on the I-Phone, Blackberry and Android platforms, now allows our citizens to report non-emergency issues with their mobile phones. Though the project was only recently rolled out to the citizens of Tucson, it is being widely used.
My...
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smarterplanet:
Last fall, we told you about an exciting and innovative competition to find - and fun - civic-focused web and mobile apps in New York City.
Tonight, after an all-star panel of judges had reviewed more than 80 apps over a month-long period, a handful of winning applications were announced.
These apps include WayFinder, a resource for navigating around the city; Taxihack, a...
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See how caring spreads
What I like about SeeClickFix is that no problem is too small and everyone counts.
New Haven, Conn. USA
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SeeClick Fix changed my life.
I have so many stories illustrating how SeeClickFix has changed my life, neighborhood and my city for the better so it’s quite hard to choose just one. But, I choose a simple but powerful example: neighborhood lighting and safety.
Our wonderful neighborhood, Wooster Square, sits right on the edge of downtown. Many neighbors do not have cars and walk and bike to work and play. Many choose...
jackmason asked: How does SCF keep track or score of people's contributions?
